But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be... - Kevin Rose

Considering how much of a nothing this is, the key is out in the public domain now and anyone that would actually know what to do with it can find it if they want to, the amount of publicity this has generated is astounding.

You only have to look at Google News or Digg itself, to see how much fuss this has kicked off. But the question is, will the MPAAAACS be stupid enough to prosecute and will Kevin have to go down fighting? Or can even the MPAA AACS see when the jig is up...?

It started out as a circumvention effort six to eight weeks ago but we now see the key on YouTube and on T-Shirts...a line is crossed when we start seeing keys being distributed and tools for circumvention. You step outside of the realm of protected free speech then. - Michael Ayers

A few years before that he caused a privacy scandal by uncovering that your iPhone was recording your location all the time. This caused several class action lawsuits and a U.S. Senate hearing. Several years on, he still isn't sure what to think about that.

Alasdair is a former academic. As part of his work he built a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes that, acting autonomously, reactively scheduled observations of time-critical events. Notable successes included contributing to the detection of what—at the time—was the most distant object yet discovered.